IAmSinistar: It's mid-November and Christmas is well underway here in The States. It starts immediately after Hallowe'en, if not sooner. And I freaking hate that.
Only children and idiots believe "more is better" as a categorical imperative. I find it's often the reverse. 12 days of Christmas? That's acceptable. Two months? Not so much. It's the same result that splitting the Olympics achieved - taking something that is special because it only happens at certain times and diluting that to where one is sick of it before it even arrives. I remember as a child being excited when the Olympics rolled around; now they seem like they're always here. Same thing with Christmas these days.
I understand the desire to drag these things out, especially when they mean more commercial opportunities ('cause Christmas is all about the Benjamins here in the U$A). But do people as a whole really enjoy it more? Maybe it's just me whose heart is black and only wants Christmas at Christmastime.
For now I am holding the encroaching tide of Christmas at bay by refusing gingerbread-flavoured things out of season and playing
Santa Dog on a loop.
You're absolutely right! A Month and a half back, I saw a christmas tree in a grocery store. I thought, "WTF. It's september." I think that if they hold their resources for christmas until december, then christmas can be celebrated
to it's fullest at that time.
